Band Name of the Day

11/29/04’s illustrious band:

Profluent

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Profluent (PROF-loo-ent) adjective

Flowing smoothly; flowing in full stream.

[From Middle English, from Latin profluent-, stem of profluens, present participle of profluere (to flow forth), from pro- (forth) + fluere (to flow).

Ultimately from Indo-European root bhleu- (to swell or overflow), from which flow words such as affluent, influence, influenza, fluctuate, fluent, fluid, fluoride, flush, flux, reflux, and superfluous.]

So how was your Thanksgiving? Was the gravy profluent, as it should be? It certainly was at Senor Editor's house, where I enjoyed great food and excellent company. Turns out mine isn't the only family with a story to tell about every dish on the table. Similarly glowing reports have come in from all quarters, and we all agree that having a few days off was very, very restful.

In fact, my leisure was so profluent that I have nothing to blog about. I could tell you about doing laundry or eating nachos at least once a day for the entire four-day weekend or watching too many X-Files or hearing a song about a cowboy with a wedgie problem or lint-brushing so much cat hair off my papasan chair that I could stage my own remake of "The Trouble With Tribbles." But that would be boring.

So I'll leave you instead with another bon mot from my literary hero James Lileks and his excellent site www.lileks.com, home of the Institute of Official Cheer: "[The net-style Christmas lights] don’t come in plastic holders; you open the box and find that the lights are already griswalded into a thick knot that defies untangling." Thank you, Brother James, for using Griswald as a verb. Remember Clark W. Griswald, the patriarch of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, played by Chevy Chase? Clark W. Griswald crusted his house and yard with so many lights and decorations that turning them on shorted out the entire town. Excellent coinage. Profluent.

Today around the world: November 29 is Unity Day in Vanuatu. Vanuatu is part of Oceania, a group of islands in the South Pacific, about 3/4 of the way from Hawaii to Australia. It includes more than 80 islands, about 65 of which are inhabited.

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